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One of the features added in the October 2025 Community Asks sprint is a Copy Button for code blocks: Copy Button on Stack Overflow - As of today, users will be able to copy blocks of code directly ...

grub2-mkconfig is intended for questions about the grub-mkconfig command (without the 2), which seems confusing to me. Could it be renamed to grub-mkconfig? See How to rename a tag? for the technical ...

I'm contributing to an open-source Hugo theme and would like to include a small icon linking to users' Unix Stack Exchange profiles. The icon would be used solely for this purpose and would not imply ...

This question, Use shell reserved word if hidden by an alias, is about a problem in Zsh that also affects Bash, so it's tagged shell zsh bash However, the question doesn't actually mention Bash and ...

Should the tag ImageMagick be split into two tags, for versions 6 and 7? The syntax of those versions is mightily different but looks deceivingly similar. So, answers for version 6 will misguide users ...

... your lost right curly brace it's here on Unix & Linux SE. Please collect it or it will be thrown away by our janitorial staff at the end of the day.

When attempting to submit a tag wiki edit suggestion, an error occurs that forces me to wait another 30 seconds before retrying the edit submission. After waiting, submitting the tag wiki edit works, ...

I've added descriptions for audio-volume volume I also audited all the questions in volume. I would suggest renaming volume to storage-volume and making volume a synonym for it.

Yesterday while researching how to answer a Ask Ubuntu question related to network device offload, came across the following Stack Overflow questions: Where does the [fixed] in ethtool output come ...

There are many questions with many tags that I never heard even the name of before. So, trying to find questions where I hopefully could do some help, I clicked "Unanswered Questions", but ...

I think we do not want a world where these are actually the same. The answers would be obviously very useful for people trying to formulate critiques, but without the intent to rant.

I submitted an edit suggestion for the nas tag: Guidance: Network-attached storage Wiki: See Wikipedia: Network-attached storage However, these were rejected as "The edit does not improve the ...

FWIW I can delete the question, I don't really care, I just thought it might be useful to somebody too. Anyhow, I'd like to learn why it's considered bad for the site, even though: I tried to find ...

I am currently doing a security awareness campaign where people need to do some OSINT research. Therefore we would like to create a fake user, a fake IT admin of a fake company, on a stackexchange ...

When should one use unix.stackexchange over Stackoverflow, and vice versa?

filter is underspecific and doesn't help categorizing questions. It's currently being used for (and this is just the diversity of contexts from the first page that opens when I click on the tag name!) ...

How does Comunity Bot decide if an answer is "unclear"? Look at https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/795024/268339 There is a working example statement that should be self-explained. What else ...

I've recently deleted a Q, and I would like to un-delete it. I read this Q&A, but the deleted:* option does not find the question... in fact it finds mostly Qs that have never been deleted. What ...

Can you post this answer to this 14-year old question? - Detect init system using the shell Wrote a neat answer and think others will benefit from it; I don't have the rep to post it myself: Following ...

What's the invocation to connect to WiFi as specified in question body on Solaris 11.4? was posted on unix.SE, migrated to ServerFault, and then migrated back to unix.SE and closed as off-topic. ...

It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of ...

nftables broadcast handling (meta pkttype broadcast and conntrack) I commented there that I had the suspicion that the packet that wasn't marked as broadcast actually wasn't a broadcast packet, ...

This question makes two references to the veth(4) manpage. The first one links to veth(4) but does not use inline formatting for the manpage title. The second one does not link, but does use inline ...

(I know this question is off topic here but don't know where to ask it) I want all my postings from all stackexchange forum to be removed. My contact information is below: Basile STARYNKEVITCH ...

This may be an issue with "SE Headquarters", but I'll report it here as this is where I've seen it: I am getting notifications from a couple of sources regarding trackers, etc on U&L SE. ...

I answered a question and was being rude to a mod because they were coming out with misinformation, after this I was able to write questions, 2, 3, 4, 5 days after up to a nearly a week but I kept ...

reading though Unix & Linux, I will come across a question that's been moved back onto page 1... I never go searching past page 1 on my browser... and the question will be something like "NFS ...

I answered a gunicorn-related question and this this the result:

Let's have a look at this: I'm rather confused, because: If i don't have tag edit privileges, why can I start editing the tag at all? If the edit is placed in a queue, why does it say "An error ...

For general information and knowledge: What is an average statistical value for the time delay between asking a question and a response being a first answer (that is not necessarily an accepted answer ...

I recently stumbled with this answer and some aspects of it raised my suspicion that it is AI generated, albeit with slight modifications made by the poster. The answer in itself is highly technical ...

Preparing to ask a question about smartmontools, I tired to filter existing questions using the correct tag(s). However searching for tags matching "smart" I realized that none of the tags ...

Long titles make posts unreadable. Some people even include long error message in a title which makes a real mess of the post. I often skip posts with long rambling titles altogether. Should we have ...

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to have Meta tag named tag-request where you can request tags to be added and if it gets enough community votes then it becomes an official tag if there is ...

Triggered by the recent (attempted) introduction of two tags for ArchLinux derivatives (EndeavourOS and BlackArch), I wonder whether there is an established policy and/or thresholds for creating tags ...

In the comments to this answer, @MC68020 addresses a comment to @ilkkachu, thanking them for something. Yet I do not see a comment by @ilkkachu nor any activity for them. There must have been ...

We didn't have a #unix-path tag until I just made one. (I hope I haven't made trouble by doing so.) The #PATH tag (all-caps) is specifically about the environment variable, but not what we refer to on ...

On Feb 2, within the late answers review queue, I had recommended deletion of some answer. This incidentally triggering some automated comment from my user. How comes that yesterday (Feb 7) I get the ...

Users often post questions with their full shell scripts pasted, asking "Why isn't it working"? In many of those cases, there isn't just a single bug in the script but several small issues (...

This question is inspired by this discussion which is about close the old questions and not display them at all. For me closing questions (old ones) is too much. At the end the idea of SE (by my ...

Can we please permanently close threads which are longer than 2 years inactive? I'm getting sick to read old posts about ancient Debian systems, because some moderator decided it would be a good idea ...

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It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here might be ...

I posted an answer to some question prior to that question being (rightfully) closed duplicate. OP went on commenting my answer eventually asking for more explanations / details which are not provided ...

Seen at: https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/34012/3 with Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04, <br/> text `code` **bold** more text Renders as: Instead of: The generated HTML is: <br/> text `...

When reviewing some post as part of the Suggested Edits queue, I, most generally, get 4 choices (Approve / Improve edit / Reject and edit / Reject). I, sometimes, albeit not often, get only 2 choices ...

Minutes after I posted Do we want to enable an "AI-generated content" banner?, the Main Meta question was updated to ask us to fill in the "Learn more" link with our site's policy ...

Given the recent announcement Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content and given our stance in How do we want to handle AI-generated answers?, it ...

Tag in question: https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/cd-command Incorrect search I performed: [windows-subsystem-for-linux] [cd] Correct search: [windows-subsystem-for-linux] [cd-command] Searching ...

I joined the community few days back and used 1 question to ask many. I got dinged ie got -1 from two experts saying i have asked too many. Fair enough, I edited that question to Questions on Linux ...